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Critics Consensus: With two appealing leads adrift in a sitcom-worthy plot, Life Partners doesn't do quite enough to earn viewers' commitment.
Critic Consensus: With two appealing leads adrift in a sitcom-worthy plot, Life Partners doesn't do quite enough to earn viewers' commitment.
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (12)
Why does it feel nearly revelatory to see a film that treats female friendship with respect?
The two stars display a winning chemistry in this amusingly observant study of female friendship.
Meester and Jacobs have an easy, authentic chemistry, but there isn't enough structure or storytelling thrust to sustain interest in the plot: Triumphs, calamities and reunions keep happening, but none contains real dramatic heft.
Fogel refuses to pander by pretending that the girls can fix everything with a hug. Sacrifices must be made.
The charming story about millennial confusion is deftly written by Susanna Fogel (who also directs) and Joni Lefkowitz, and the dialog actually sounds like the way a pair of smart and funny twentysomethings might really talk.
On paper Life Partners has what it takes to be a gem of a character-based indie, but as executed, I'm sorry to report, this movie borders on insufferable.
It may not be boundary pushing, or revelatory cinema, but Life Partners is easy digestible, inoffensive and just a charming film. The performances are good, the script is solid, and the message is true: best friends are forever.
Life Partners exudes with twisty complications that are both enlightening and gently heartbreaking. Messner and Jacobs are fabulously endearing as the joined-by-the-hip besties coping with love and life lessons while dealing with the high expectations.
The focus is ultimately on Sasha and Paige's friendship, and how Paige's successes cause Sasha to reflect on her own failures, though being queer is not among them; it's just who she is.
Despite a few moments of sitcom silliness, [Leighton] Meester and [Gillian] Jacobs bring that struggle to relatable life.
While it's not the most perceptive film exploring the diversity of the lesbian experience, Life Partners has several insightful comic moments that ring true.
With such generic characters and scenarios, it feels like a sitcom pilot, where lessons are learned and, at the end of the day, everyone winds up right back where they started.
Great movie. Loved the relationship between the two best friends and how things change as they move along with their lives. Really relatable and well done. Very pleasantly surprised.
Super Reviewer
Gillian Jacobs and Leighton Meester have a true and relatable chemistry here. Every character is different, with their own set of defining (exaggerated but still realistic) traits. Certainly a teen movie for those of us who were teens when the "teen movie" thing kicked off back in the late 90's, in that, these "teens" are jaded 29 year olds who have no idea where the Hell their lives are going and are surrounded by the drama of the technological age, trying to ignore it and hope that it will all go away, while simultaneously acting like they know how to handle it better than anyone else. There are truths to be found in Life Partners, but is there a grade-a story, career-defining roles or off the rails staying power? No. So please do support this sweet little Indie, it's well worth it, but don't think you'll be getting the best the genre has to offer either.
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